The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . orce should make a raid across the army mustered, advanced, and was approachingEnglish ground when Oliver Sinclair, one of thekings favourites, began to read the commissionwhich appointed himself to the chief nobles present were enraged at this new en-croachment upon their hereditary rights, a storm ofindignation ensued, and all discipline was Dacre, the English leader, who was near athand with three hundred cavalry, when he observedthe confusion of the Scots, dashed in amongst them
The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . orce should make a raid across the army mustered, advanced, and was approachingEnglish ground when Oliver Sinclair, one of thekings favourites, began to read the commissionwhich appointed himself to the chief nobles present were enraged at this new en-croachment upon their hereditary rights, a storm ofindignation ensued, and all discipline was Dacre, the English leader, who was near athand with three hundred cavalry, when he observedthe confusion of the Scots, dashed in amongst them,and in an instant the Scottish army was number of prisoners fell into the hands of theenemy, and among them nine nobles. This disasteris known in history as the panic of Solway the tidings reached the king it broke hisspirit ; he brooded over his disappointment anddisgrace, gradually sank into a helpless state, andexpired on the 14th of December, 1542. The Crown then fell to an infant Mary Stuart,born in the palace of Linlithgow seven days before. THE EARL OF ARRAN.{Painhr itnknoztm.) BIRTH OF MARY. EARL OF ARRAN REGENT. I15 the death of her father. She was destined to becomethe most famous of the long Hne of Scottishsovereigns. In her infancy and innocent childhoodshe was an object of fierce contention. Her youthand beauty, her talents and accomplishments, hersuccess and failure, the strength and weakness of hercharacter, her long captivity and tragic end—allconcurred to fill the story of her life with the mostabsorbing interest. James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, being next heir tothe throne, was elected regent. When Henry of these events, he at once formed the ideathat he should have the infant queen for a wife to hisson, and it occurred to him that the banished Earl ofAngus, and the Scotch nobles taken at Solway Moss,might be made useful agents for advancing hisscheme. He proposed to them accordingly that theyshould exert themselves to place t
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